The original and unique artwork Vous avez dit carré? is a creation from the artist Martine Chaperon, who creates colorful landscapes with mixed technique: acrylic to which she adds ochres of Roussillon and pastel to enhance colors, but also mortar, Japanese paper, for transparency and texture.

Martine Chaperon

A native of Grenoble, the artist was born in 1953 with pencil in hand, much as others are born with a musical ear. Painting seemed as obvious, soothing and essential as that of the simple act of breathing. So she began her training at the School of Fine Arts in Grenoble, which confirmed her vocation. Martine entitled her first painting "Birth" and thus began her life as an artist. She then was lucky enough to make art her career. Touched by the works of Michelangelo (Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance), Rodin (French sculptor of th…